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Hi all, it is so great about the game feature, now may HTPC had really become the center of my living room.
Using one unit of Xbox Wireless Controller connected by Bluetooth was running greatly.
however i am having problem when connect the second Xbox Wireless Controller by Bluetooth, it seems both controller have same key mapping and both controller only control player one, i cannot have the second controller for second player.
appreciate if some one can provide a guide for me showing how to setup correctly.
good day!
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Same problem as well
Using 2 Xbox One S controllers (bluetooth only, no Microsoft dongle) on Arch Linux (ARM) with xpadneo and Kodi 18.7
xpadneo supports multiple controllers and they get mapped to different input devices but kodi retroplayer handles them as one
Funnily enough if I go in kodi system settings, I can see two entries of Xbox Controllers so Kodi is able to differentiate between them
If someone else is able to use two controllers at the same time I guess it's a bug or some configuration we're somehow missing.
I don't see sdl as a dependency of either kodi or kodi-addon-peripheral-joystick so I wonder if it's just because of different backends of the input driver being used (eg: maybe it works on sdl but not on xinput)
That said, if anyone knows about this issue and want to send it my way I'd be happy to test and send a PR
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asavah
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(This post was last modified: 2020-08-24, 16:48 by asavah.)
They can use both.
Dongle makes use of 2.4GHz Radio Frequency but it is NOT wifi. "Wireless" does not always mean "wifi".
Wireless Xbox One controllers can also use bluetooth and obviously can also be connected using a usb cable.
AFAIK dongle has more features, eg. audio jack on the controller won't work over bluetooth.
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Hi wanted to start a thread to ask but since this was already present : do 3rd party wireless XBOX controllers work? i love Kodi but i may get a free 3rd party XBOX wireless BT/RF/wired controller. If i wish to use it with my windows desktop pc with the supplied USB Dongle and RF would it work with Kodi as of now?
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To use Xbox or any other controller on Kodi just connected to the device, Once done, first time you may need to do some configuration.
Steps
1. Browse to Settings & System Settings
2. Select Input & Configure attached controllers
3 Find the controller mapping window
Click Selector start, then press each button (or move the thumbstick) as it is highlighted on screen
Hope this will help you.
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garbear
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Yes, Multiplayer was always supported but switching ports wasn't, so it was relatively limited. Multiplayer should work much better in the latest v20 or my v19 test builds. Let me know if you run into any more problems.
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I must install your build (entire Kodi 19) to have it working, right? It is not some addon or something like that, right?
Anyway, I had another problem, I don't know if someone was trying to address it, so I will just ask: can't I map a keyboard key to a missing key in my controller?